Hi everyone,
I have installed and played with home assistant on raspberry pi 3B+ for two months. At the beginning with hassio, and then I installed on raspberry a dedicated image of openSUSE.
Some day after that switch I had problems with the sd card: generic errors on the filesystem that prevent the raspberry to work correctly, and even to boot. I’ve found on google people who had problems with filesystem. I didn’t find a reliable solution. Now I have home assistant on a linux desktop pc, still with opensuse. It works very well and fast, but a desktop pc consumes more power, 70Wh in idle… probably 10 times than Raspberry.
Anyone had a problem like this?
The most frequent comments I’ve seen here point towards two items:
- The SD Card itself, although I have mine running for over a year now I have seen people saying theirs lasting only a few months. Not much you can do about it but buying a high-quality one (I got myself a high endurance one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Q1N1I)
- The power supply of the RPI - maybe you want to check here:
Raspberry Pi Power Sensor (updated: 2018-07-25) / Use Github for reports in the future
Buying SD cards designed for dashcams, or industrial SD cards, will result in a significantly longer lifespan.
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Or use an USB memory stick. The RPI 3B+ boots from USB out-of-the-box.
Plus stable power, get the device attached to a small UPS
Hi,
had the same issues multiple times and i already use a stable power source and good sd cards… i think that’s a design problem. SD cards aren’t made for that. Switched the raspberry over to a 120GB Sandisk SSD and a USB-connector - no problems since then.
Best
Peter
I didn’t know that the PI3B+ can be used with a usb key… great! Thanks for the suggestion!
I will buy an UPS also.